Games like Beyond: Two Souls
If you like Beyond: Two Souls (narrative, choices and supernatural), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
Detroit: Become Human
- In common: story
- Difference: less co-op
When you want a story like a TV series where you choose the direction, chapter by chapter.
The Walking Dead
- In common: story
- Difference: less co-op
When you want an intense story in instalments: each episode lasts a couple of hours and leaves you wanting more.
Tales from the Borderlands
- In common: story
- Difference: less co-op
When you fancy an episodic comedy adventure: each episode lasts around an hour and a half.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
- In common: story
- Difference: less co-op
When you fancy a moving story in instalments: each episode lasts a few hours.
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
- In common: story
- Difference: less co-op
When you fancy an interactive novel in instalments: each of its three books lasts between three and six hours.
Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
- In common: story
- Difference: less co-op
When you want to finish a story over one or two evenings: reviews put it at between 3 and 7 hours.
OXENFREE
- In common: story
- Difference: less co-op
When you want a mystery story you can play through in one or two afternoons, with no demands.
Road 96
- In common: story
- Difference: less co-op
When you have an hour to spare: according to Analog Stick Gaming, each trip to the border takes about that long.
A Plague Tale: Innocence
- In common: story
- Difference: less co-op
When you're in the mood for a linear, moving story over a few evenings: it lasts between 10 and 15 hours, across 17 chapters.
Emily is Away <3
- In common: story
- Difference: less co-op
When you fancy a chat-based story for an afternoon: according to Kinglink, each playthrough takes about 4 hours.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About Beyond: Two Souls
You follow Jodie from childhood to adulthood, bound to Aiden, an entity that passes through walls, possesses people and moves objects. You play through QTEs and timed dialogue, in jumbled chapters or, if you prefer, in order.
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